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DFF Inc., サステナビリティ推進室

環境保全コスト

Environment   revised in October 2024

Environmental conservation costs(Unit: million yen)

Furukawa Electric
Category Key activity and the outcome FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Business area costs Installation and maintenance of equipment for exhaust and wastewater treatment, energy saving, recycling, solar power generation, etc., waste disposal, various types of recycling, soil contamination surveys, etc. 1,145 1,144 1,238 1,211 1,163
Upstream/downstream costs Packaging with eco-friendly materials, collection and reuse of cable drums, etc. 175 156 142 137 141
Administration costs Environmental management system operation (operation of committees, audits, etc.), measurement and monitoring of environmental impact, and environmental education, etc. 329 340 312 396 463
Research and development costs Research and development for environmental conservation, such as energy savings and alternatives to hazardous substances. 281 260 222 264 334
Social activity costs Tree planting, local community cleaning activities, donations, etc. 2 0 1 1 1
Environmental remediation costs Environmental impact assessments, cleanup of polluted soil, etc. 1 0 0 0 1
Total 1,933 1,900 1,914 2,009 2,102
Domestic group companies
Category Key activity and the outcome FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Business area costs Installation and maintenance of equipment for exhaust and wastewater treatment, energy saving, recycling, solar power generation, etc., waste disposal, various types of recycling, soil contamination surveys, etc. 535 348 455 347 476
Upstream/downstream costs Packaging with eco-friendly materials, collection and reuse of cable drums, etc. 211 145 126 133 146
Administration costs Environmental management system operation (operation of committees, audits, etc.), measurement and monitoring of environmental impact, and environmental education, etc. 128 80 107 122 123
Research and development costs Research and development for environmental conservation, such as energy savings and alternatives to hazardous substances. 46 97 78 34 57
Social activity costs Tree planting, local community cleaning activities, donations, etc. 3 1 1 3 2
Environmental remediation costs Environmental impact assessments, cleanup of polluted soil, etc. 0 0 1 1 3
Total 924 673 768 640 806
Furukawa Electric + Domestic group companies
Category Key activity and the outcome FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Business area costs Installation and maintenance of equipment for exhaust and wastewater treatment, energy saving, recycling, solar power generation, etc., waste disposal, various types of recycling, soil contamination surveys, etc. 1,681 1,493 1,693 1,558 1,638
Upstream/downstream costs Packaging with eco-friendly materials, collection and reuse of cable drums, etc. 386 301 268 270 287
Administration costs Environmental management system operation (operation of committees, audits, etc.), measurement and monitoring of environmental impact, and environmental education, etc. 457 420 419 518 586
Research and development costs Research and development for environmental conservation, such as energy savings and alternatives to hazardous substances. 327 358 300 298 390
Social activity costs Tree planting, local community cleaning activities, donations, etc. 5 1 2 3 3
Environmental remediation costs Environmental impact assessments, cleanup of polluted soil, etc. 1 0 1 1 3
Total 2,857 2,573 2,682 2,648 2,908

Economic benefits associated with environmental conservation activities (Unit: million yen)
Reduction amount compared to previous year, Minus figures indicate an increase.

Furukawa Electric
Details of benefits FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Revenue from recycling 248 244 170 200 388
Reduction in waste disposal costs -150 24 132 -111 38
Reduction in energy costs 64 1,057 -958 -2,424 1,545
Reduction in water purchase costs 8 23 6 -13 4
Total 171 1,348 -650 -2,346 1,974
Domestic group companies
Details of benefits FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Revenue from recycling 239 244 361 393 390
Reduction in waste disposal costs -46 33 14 156 12
Reduction in energy costs 77 1,072 -654 -1,118 356
Reduction in water purchase costs -32 63 -11 0 2
Total 237 1,412 -290 -569 760
Furukawa Electric + Domestic group companies
Details of benefits FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Revenue from recycling 487 488 531 593 777
Reduction in waste disposal costs -196 57 146 46 50
Reduction in energy costs 141 2,129 -1,613 -3,541 1,901
Reduction in water purchase costs -24 86 -4 -13 6
Total 408 2,760 -940 -2,915 2,735

Environmental conservation benefits

Furukawa Electric
Environmental impact Unit FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Volume of industrial waste disposal processed* tons 369 532 539 485 313
Energy consumption (crude oil equivalent) 1,000 kℓ 139 129 129 122 89
Water consumption 1,000 tons 7,987 7,871 7,873 7,770 8,292
Emissions of volatile organic chemical compounds tons 236 236 223 195 205
CO₂ emissions 1,000 t-CO₂e 213 197 185 133 83
SOx emissions tons 4 3 2 3 3
NOx emissions tons 47 73 66 61 62
Soot emissions tons 3 1 3 2 3
Domestic group companies
Environmental impact Unit FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Volume of industrial waste disposal processed* tons 1,106 1,006 864 999 926
Energy consumption (crude oil equivalent) 1,000 kℓ 52 47 53 48 40
Water consumption 1,000 tons 1,878 1,507 1,295 1,350 1,136
Emissions of volatile organic chemical compounds tons 120 79 68 55 49
CO₂ emissions 1,000 t-CO₂e 97 90 95 85 75
SOx emissions tons 0 0 1 3 3
NOx emissions tons 20 20 5 1 1
Soot emissions tons 0 0 4 0 0
Furukawa Electric + Domestic group companies
Environmental impact Unit FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Volume of industrial waste disposal processed* tons 1,474 1,538 1,404 1,484 1,239
Energy consumption (crude oil equivalent) 1,000 kℓ 191 176 181 169 129
Water consumption 1,000 tons 9,865 9,378 9,168 9,120 9,428
Emissions of volatile organic chemical compounds tons 356 315 292 250 254
CO₂ emissions 1,000 t-CO₂e 310 287 281 218 158
SOx emissions tons 4 3 3 6 6
NOx emissions tons 67 93 71 62 63
Soot emissions tons 3 2 7 3 3

* Excluding recycled wastes

Investment and research costs (Unit: million yen)

Furukawa Electric
Investment and research costs FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Total investment 18,736 14,195 14,352 16,408 16,864
Of which, environment-related investment 1,139 985 976 617 499
Total research costs 10,455 9,779 10,077 10,970 12,126
Domestic group companies
Investment and research costs FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Total investment 7,004 8,325 7,075 3,867 5,640
Of which, environment-related investment 234 137 345 152 138
Total research costs 1,974 1,799 2,816 1,694 1,634
Furukawa Electric + Domestic group companies
Investment and research costs FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Total investment 25,740 22,520 21,427 20,275 22,504
Of which, environment-related investment 1,374 1,122 1,321 769 637
Total research costs 12,429 11,578 12,893 12,664 13,760

Environmentally-friendly products Cumulative number of registered items and percentage of sales

  FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Furukawa Electric Cumulative number of registered items 126 130 131 133 136
Percentage of sales on a one-year basis 66.4 68.4 74.3 73.7 77.4
Furukawa Electric (consolidated) Cumulative number of registered items 137 149 156 150 157
Percentage of sales on a one-year basis 56.2 58.2 61.9 65.0 65.9

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Social　　revised in October 2024

Number of employees

* Workers with employment contracts (including non-permanent employees and assigned employees) are covered.

Number of employees in managerial positions

Number of candidates for managerial positions (equivalent of chiefs)

Percentage of non-regular employees* (Unit: %) 

* Including rehiring, part-timers and fixed-term employees

Employment rate of people with disabilities (Unit: %)

* As of June 1 of each year

Share of non-Japanese employees（Unit: ％）

* We began disclosing in FY2022.

Percentage of labor union membership (Unit: %)

* Including those exempted as defined in the collective agreement

Average age（Unit: years）

* We began disclosing in FY2022.

Average years of service（Unit: years）

Average wages by employment category

* We began disclosing in FY2022.

Number of new hires（Unit: persons）

Male/female percentage of new graduates （Unit：%）

Ratio of mid-career hires to total new staff hires*（Unit：％）

* New staff hires refer to new graduates and mid-career hires.

Turnover rate (Unit: %)

*1 The calculation method has changed since FY2021;
Number of employees who resigned/retired during the fiscal year (A) ÷ Number of employees enrolled during the fiscal year.
(Before FY 2020； (A) ÷ number of employees enrolled on the first day of the fiscal year.) 

*2 The data of FY2021 and FY2022 includes the impact of using the Job change Assistance Program before the abolition of it due to the raising of the retirement age.

Overtime work hours per person (Unit: hours per month)

Use of regular annual leave (Unit: days)

Ratio of childcare leave taken

*1From FY2022, forms were revised. For information on FY2022 and earlier, please refer to "Ratio of childcare leave taken (Old format)" in Sustainability Book 2023.

*2From FY2023, the ratio of childcare leave taken is calculated as “the number of persons who started taking childcare leave during the current fiscal year / the number of persons who had newborns.” Until FY2022, it was calculated as “the number of persons currently taking childcare leave / the number of persons who have newborns,” so the FY2022 results in the table have been revised to conform to the FY2023 calculation standard. In addition, persons who took maternity leave are not included in the number of persons who took childcare leave.

*3Figures from FY2023 present “the average number of days of leave taken by persons who returned to work in the current fiscal year.” Since the figures for FY2022 presented “the average number of days of childcare leave taken by persons in the current fiscal year,” the FY2022 results in the table have been revised to conform to the FY2023 calculation standard.

Number of employees taking nursing care leave (Unit: persons)

* Number of employees who took at least one day of nursing care leave (not including those who continued to take leave from the previous year).

Number of employees taking volunteer leave (Unit: persons)

Number of employees taking refreshment leave (Unit: persons)

* “Refreshment leave” is a system that allows employees with 25 years of service to take 14 or more days of leave. (Available for taking within 2 years)

Percentage of employees subject to HR evaluation (Unit: %)

Training costs per employee (Unit: 1,000 yen)

Number of employees trained by positions (Unit: persons)

*1 Furukawa Electric and employees dispatched to other companies

*2 Human rights education included in the lecture

*3 It was postponed for one year to review the training, and held all at once in 2021.

*4 Total number of employees who took each program

Number of employees trained in competition law compliance and bribery regulations （Unit: persons）


*1 In order to avoid duplication of contents, no seminars in Japan have been held in years of e-learning implementation since FY 2022.

*2 E-learning seminars will be held every other year from FY2022 onward.

Number of employees trained in the Subcontract Act（Unit: persons）

Number of employees trained in security trade control（Unit: persons）

Number of employees receiving safety training (Unit: total number of people per year)

Number of employees receiving health training (Unit: persons)

Number of employees receiving GENBA-RYOKU reinforcement training* (Unit: persons)

* GENBA-RYOKU reinforcement training is a training program for technical employees and consists of a curriculum focusing on the "six key missions (safety, environment, quality, cost, production, and facilities)," "human skills," and "technical skills".

Percentage of the Works certified by OSHMS (Unit: %)

* The target is business sites with manufacturing divisions. In FY2022, one site obtained certification, which resulted in an increase.

Frequency rate of accidents resulting in time off work

* Frequency rate = (Number of casualties / Total actual work hours) x 1,000,000

Number of deaths among regular employees

* Non-work-related injury or illness are not included

Number of deaths among non-regular employees

* Contractors not included

Number of communications with suppliers on important items in the SAQ(Unit: companies)

Number of suppliers working together for environmental and social aspects (Unit: companies)

*1From the perspective of preventing new coronavirus infections, we have canceled the Partners Meeting.

*2The calculation method was reviewed in FY2024 and recalculated retroactively for FY2019.

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サステナビリティ推進室, ものづくり改革本部 安全推進室, ものづくり改革本部 資材部, ものづくり改革本部 品質管理推進室, FTR, 組織開発課, 健康推進センター, 環境部, リスク管理部, 人材・組織開発部　労政課, 人材・組織開発部　システム企画課, 戦略人事部　人事２課, 戦略人事部　人事1課, 人材・組織開発部　人材教育課

Governance　revised in October 2024

Status of Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members

  FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024
Furukawa Electric Number of Directors 12 12 11 11 11 11
Outside directors（Independent directors） 5 5 5 5 5 5
Female directors 1 1 1 1 1 1
Number of Audit & Supervisory Board members 6 6 6 6 6 6
Outside members（Independent directors） 3 3 3 3 3 3
Female members 0 1 1 1 1 1
Ratio of Female Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members 5.6 11.1 11.8 11.8 11.8 11.8
Number of Executive officers 25 27 27 25 23 27
Female executive officers 1 1 2 1 1 2
Foreign executive officers 3 3 3 2 2 2
Number of Senior Fellows 2 1 1 3 3 2

* As of the end of June for each year

* The above tables do not cover all experience/knowledge of each person. A check-mark is placed only in case where the Company expects that a person’s significant experience/knowledge in each item will particularly contribute to solving key issues.

Composition of the Board of Directors, Audit & Supervisory Board, and Various Committees

Board of Directors Audit & Supervisory Board Nominating/
Compensation Committee		 Outside Officers’ Meeting
Number of Members Total 11 6 7 8
Inside director 6 ― 2 ―
Outside directors（Independent directors） 5 ― 5 5
Internal auditor ― 3 ― ―
Outside members（Independent directors） ― 3 ― 3
Number of Meetings (FY2023) 16 9 5 4

* As of the end of June 2024

Remuneration for Directors, etc

  • Policies for determining remuneration, etc. for Directors, etc.
  • Amount of Remuneration for Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Integrated Report 2024

Corporate Governance

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Others

Others    Revised in October 2024

Sales by region and overseas sales ratio （Unit: million yen）

  FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Sales by region Japan 495,658 435,195 461,450 517,358 511,296
China 75,059 82,777 100,457 104,326 103,443
Asia (except Japan,China) 183,033 141,029 190,877 224,931 242,820
North and Central America 78,302 78,179 91,716 127,793 120,569
South America,Europe and others 82,386 74,418 85,994 91,915 78,400
Consolidated sales 914,439 811,600 930,496 1,066,326 1,056,528
Overseas sales 418,781 376,403 469,046 548,967 545,232
Overseas sales ratio (%) 45.8 46.4 50.4 51.5 51.6

* Sales are classified into countries or regions based on the location of customers

Number of patent rights （Unit: patents）

  FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023
Furukawa Electric Domestic patents 4,523 4,388 4,423 4,364 4,455
Overseas patents 2,910 2,976 3,160 3,225 3,333
Total 7,433 7,364 7,583 7,589 7,788

* The number of domestic and overseas patents held by Furukawa Electric includes the results of regularly reviewing owned patents.

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